On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> > I played with them somewhat, and never found anything that it broke
> > by hard linking directories, fsck seemed to handle it fine. Unlinking a
> > directory where there were still files and it was the last link would of
> > coarse orphan those files.
>
> Ever created a loop? Happened somehow (probably a stupid joker playing
> around) with something like 10 levels of directories called 'a' that looped
> back through an 'a' on a VAX here (Ultrix, also BSD based). Gave me a
> _really_ hard time, first to find out what was going on and then to clean
> up the mess.
SunOS only allowed hard linking directories by super-user, regular users
couldn't do it, so no, never had that happen. Have had it happen with symlinks
though and explode backups.
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